“I Need a Good Book I need a good story.I need a good book.The kind that explodesOff the shelf.I need some good writing,Alive and exciting,To contemplate all by myself.I need a good novel,I need a good read.I probably needTwo or three.I need a good taleOf love and betrayalOr perhaps an adventure at sea.I need a good saga.I need a good yarn.A momentous and mightilyOr slight one.But with thousands and thousandsAnd thousands of books,I need someone to tell meThe right one. -John Lithgow”

“When you are writing, you do not need to be as good as Poe, Shakespeare or Rowling. You need to be as good as you!”

“Need is never a good basis for any relationship.”

“There’s nothing I need or want to know from the writers I admire that isn’t in their books. It’s better to read a good writer than meet one.”

“Jesus was a good guy, he didn't need this shit.”

“If it be true that good wine needs no bush,'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue;yet to good wine they do use good bushes,and good plays prove the better by the help of good epilogues.”

“But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better.”